The Revelation of Jesus Christ - The Herald

Last three trumpets also related
Concerning the correspondencies between the plagues of Egypt and the seven last plagues
of Revelation we have a further statement:
"The record is given of ten plagues upon Egypt, three of which came on both Egypt and
Israel, but from the 'seven last plagues' all Israel were exempt. To appreciate fully the
above statement, one must read six chapters in Exodus, beginning with the seventh. It is
when the fourth plague is threatened that the Lord says: 'I will sever in that day the land
of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarm of flies shall be there; to the end thou
mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division
between My people and thy people; tomorrow shall this sign be.' (Chap. 8:22,23.) [The
antitype of this division, as all Bible students know, has been having its fulfillment for the
last forty years and more. We would understand that this separating work is not one of
gathering the Lord's people while in the flesh into one organization or sect, but rather one
of separating them from the plagues, by a knowledge of truth, or by their change to glory.]
"In describing the scenes associated with the deliverance of the Church down here, John
the Revelator speaks of 'seven last plagues' also, which we may reasonably expect to stand
in the order foreshadowed in the type. 'Seven last plagues' implies that others [the woe
trumpets] preceded them, as in the type."
In this same connection we submit a late utterance by Mr. Russell, which is in harmony
with the above:
"The first three (of the Egyptian plagues) . . . appear to have been common to the Israelites
as well as to the Egyptians, the land of Goshen being spared from the remaining seven
plagues. . . . During this series of plagues Pharaoh relented a little occasionally to the
extent that he agreed that the males of the Hebrews should go forth, as requested, to
sacrifice in the wilderness, the females and children being held as hostages for their return.
But this brought out the answer that when they would go it must be all of them, including
their cattle and herds, and to this Pharaoh would not hear, until Egypt was smitten with
the tenth plague, and all the first-born of Egypt (humanity and animals) died; then he
urged them to go. The chastisement was sufficient. So it will be in the end of the [present]
time of trouble that is approaching, and which [time of trouble] is figuratively represented
by these plagues, especially 'the seven last plagues.'--Rev. 15.
"When the last plague [corresponding to the tenth of Egypt] has been poured out, as a vial
of Divine wrath, 'the powers that be' will realize that it is useless to fight against God. And
as Pharaoh and his people received a severe retributive punishment for every evil they
had inflicted upon the Israelites, and as their first-born became retributive representatives
of the Israelitish babes they had caused to be drowned in the Nile, so their flocks and
herds, and the crops that were destroyed by the locusts and insects, etc., and all the
troubles upon them, were retributive punishments, for the unjust exactions made of the
Israelites. So we may suppose that the great troubles and losses which will come upon 'the
powers that be' of the present time, in the approaching trouble, will, in some sense or